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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



May 1, 19ei 



Far Eastern points, lie sailed from San Francisco on April 8, 

 for Honolulu. 



SOUTHERN NOTES 



The present officers of the .\rmorcurd Ruhber Co., Morgantown, 

 West Virginia, are: J. H. McUermott, president; J. A. Mc- 

 Lane, vice-president and F. M. Cain, secretary-treasurer. 



H. Githens, general sales manager of the Federal Rubber Co., 

 Cudah.v, Wisconsin, is at the present time making a tour of 

 Federal warehouses in the south and southwest. 



KELLY-SPRINGFIELD'S NEW TIRE FACTORY 



INCREASING DE.M.\Nus made it necessary for the Kelly-Spring- 

 field Tire Co. to choose a site for another plant in addition 

 to that in Akron, and Cumberland, Maryland, was selected as 

 the most advantageous spot. The plant was erected on property 

 of more than one hundred acres along the Potomac River, about 

 a mile from the heart of the city. The plant is served by three 

 trunk line railroads, one of which skirts the property. 



The property consists of power plant, pump house, machine 

 shop, chemical building and the main factory building. The latter 

 is two stories high with mezzanine and basement, and consists of 

 a main wing 760 by 120 feet, to which is connected five wings, each 

 being 405 by 60 feet, and each wing is connected to the other. 

 The floor area is approximately 20 acres. The entire building 

 and its foundations are of extra heavy construction and have 

 been designed to carry additional stories. The machinery contained 

 therein is of the most modem designs. The arrangement from 

 the receipt of raw materials, through the various processes of 

 manufacture to the shipping of finished goods is one continuous 

 progressive movement, no back haul nor rehandling of any 

 materials or goods in process is necessary. 



The power plant is equipped with the most modern apparatus 

 and has ready for operation six 750 horsepower boilers capable 

 of developing a total of from 9,000 to 12,000 horsepower. All coal 

 and ash are handled by automatic machinery, making labor un- 

 necessary. 



Tlicre are also installed and ready for operation mammoth 

 turbines as well as condensers, motor generator sets, pumps and 

 all other necessary apparatus for efficient operation. The circulat- 

 ing pumps are capable of pumping thirty million gallons of water 

 each day. The electric current is carried into the main factory 

 distributing stations by large copper bars through tunnels, and 

 from there to the various sub-stations by lead cable. 



The pump house contains a most complete equipment of modern 

 standard and special pumps from a 500-gaIlon to a 6,000.000- 

 gallon compound pump, together with accumulators, air com- 

 pressors, tanks, etc. Water is taken from the river through seven- 



foot tunnels into a pit in the pump house : all construction is 

 Ijelow the river bed. 



The chemical building is about 300 feet long, 55 feel wide and 

 the greater portion two stories high, and contains complete 

 apparatus and equipment for every conceivable character of 

 rubber industry experimental work. Two large general laboratory 

 rooms are provided as well as a number of special rooms for re- 

 search work. Complete equipment for experimental tire-making 

 on full-sized scale is also installed in this building. 



In addition to the buildings mentioned, a temporary hospital 

 building is erected as well as a large fireproof garage and several 

 .smaller auxiliary buildings, all of the finest modern design and 

 construction, and properly equipped for their purpose. 



The entire plant is completely protected by automatic sprinkler 

 system, fire hydrants, hose and necessary apparatus of this char- 

 acter. One and one-half years were consumed in building this 

 plant. 



A VETERAN IN RUBBER MANUFACTURE 



ROBERT E. Hutch KISS, whose likeness is here shown, has 

 a record of service that few can equal. Very briefly he 

 lists his activities as follows : Born in 1849, the year the Xauga- 

 tuck railroad was completed to Waterbury, Connecticut. He was 

 with Goodyear's India Rubber Glove 

 Maimfacturing Co., Naugatuck, Con- 

 necticut, from boyhood until 1881, when 

 lie went to the Boston Rubber Co., 

 Chelsea, Massachusetts, as superintend- 

 ent. With this firm he remained until 

 the end of 1894, including a few months 

 during which he was transferred to the 

 Granby Rubber Co., Granby, Canada. 



Poor health then led him into advisory 

 and consulting work. In 1894 he re- 

 turned to Goodyear's India Rubber 

 Glove Manufacturing Co. in a clerical 

 capacity for two years, followed by two 

 years in the pay of the Liverpool Rubber 

 Co., Limited, Liverpool, England, although actually employed only 

 one year. Part of 1898 and 1899 he was with Augustus O. Bourne 

 in Providence, Rhode Island, and part of 1899 and 1900 with 

 George H. Hood in Boston, Massacliusetts, engaged on special 

 work pertaining to litigation, etc. 



In 1900 he went abroad and remained eight years before re- 

 turning to America. For four j'ears he was with the Liverpool 

 Rubber Co., Limited, Liverpool, England, followed by nearly two 

 years with the Xorth British Rubber Co., Limited, Edinburgh, 



Robert E. Hotchkiss 



1. V.-. ., 



Pl.\nt of the Kelly-Sprincfield Tire Co., Cumberland, Maryland 



